Subspecies Platycercus (Platycercus) elegans fleurieuensis Ashby, 1917

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• Platycercus elegans fleurieuensis Ashby, E. 1917. Description of a new sub-species of Platycercus elegans (Gmelin). The Emu 17: 43-45 [43] [proposed conditionally but available under ICZN Art. 15; syntypes figured in Emu 17: pl. 17 (1918); for their identification (as holotype and paratype) and their locality, see Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum 17: 189–193; as no holotype was specified in the original description, the nomination by Bourjot Saint-Hilaire, A. 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, troisième volume (Supplémentaire), pour faire suite aux deux volumes de Levaillant, contenant les espèces laissées inédites par cet auteur ou récemment découvertes. Paris : F.G. Levrault xl 110 pp. 111 pls [publication dated as 1837–1838] effects lectotypification instead under ICZN Art. 74].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA B2323 ♂, Second Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA B5333 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 189-193.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Centred on Fleurieu Peninsula north to Bungala-Inman Rivers and east to Hindmarsh River valley and Crows Nest Range, SA. Intergrades further northwards with P. e. subadelaidae Mathews, 1912 throughout the Mt Lofty Range and its flanks west to the E Adelaide Plains, east to the W Murray Mallee as far as Murray Bridge area, Wongulla, Sutherlands and Florieton, and north to the Campbell Hills south of Jamestown, also intergrades with P. e. flaveolus Gould, 1837 along lower Marne River, and surrounding mallee lands, SA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds mainly on seeds arboreally (Eucalyptus) and on ground, often flocks in small groups (particularly immatures), flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Ashby, E. 1917. Description of a new sub-species of Platycercus elegans (Gmelin). The Emu 17: 43-45 (distribution, systematics)

Joseph, L. & Hope, R. 1984. Aspects of genetic relationships and variation in parrots of the Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans complex (Aves: Psittacidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 77-84 (biosystematics, population genetics)

Lea, A.M. & Gray, J.T. 1935. The food of Australian birds. An analysis of the stomach contents. Part II. The Emu 35: 63-98 (diet)

 

History of changes

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